PlanetXbox360.com Mentioned on ActionTrip

darkshadow · 22-08-2005, 10:37 PM

here is the article

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Torching the Xbox 360 [Uros "2Lions" Jojic] 05:51 am EDT @ August 22nd, 2005
PlanetXbox360.com writes (via Team Xbox) about the slightly bizarre (yet welcomed) testing done at the Xbox360 evaluation and reliability testing center where they were literally burning the Xbox360 to see that is met the sort of quality standards that are being touted.

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Takahashi got to see many Xbox 360 being completely destroyed as he recounts in his editorial. Here are some highlights:

On the tour, I got to see some working prototypes, as well as many with their guts torn out. Behind doors with coded keypads, Microsoft is literally baking some of these machines to see if they can live up to tough quality standards before they begin shipping this fall. Here and there, engineers say that they’re the first to begin playing next-generation games.

We walked around the lab to a guy who was roasting his Xbox 360. He was testing the processor by heating it up to 70 degrees Celsius.

A guy named Rich Lee showed me a gigantic chamber where he can simulate all sorts of environmental conditions. There is room for 120 Xbox 360s on the racks in this room, which can be heated or cooled as needed. I step in and feel the warm air blast me. The Xbox 360s stay in the pressure cooker for up to 72 hours at a time. There are about 1,100 components on the motherboard. A lot of stuff can go wrong.

She walked by a table with a bunch of wiring and some more decapitated Xbox 360s and said they test them to see if they can withstand surges that come from lightening strikes. There is something called an “ESD gun” on the table. I think to myself, if lightening strikes my house, I don’t think I will keep playing my game. She also said they have to test for dealing with voltage changes and brown-outs.

Thanks, BadCRC.

Justin Buser · 22-08-2005, 10:56 PM

Cheers man, didnt know about that one.

We have been getting coverage all over the place lately - its been great

Blank · 23-08-2005, 05:18 AM

We are so awsome

bennyboo03 · 23-08-2005, 07:32 AM

huh cool! next thing you know we are on microsoft home page!well thie site anyways

JetMars · 23-08-2005, 12:32 PM

Congratz on the coverage people.